Tag: National Party
Why NZ voters should beware of reading too much into political...
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University
With a new prime minister sworn in and a cabinet reshuffle imminent, it is no exaggeration to say the...
Chris Hipkins becomes NZ’s new prime minister – there are two...
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, Massey University
Following the surprise resignation of Jacinda Ardern on January 19, Aotearoa New Zealand already has a new Prime Minister...
Ardern won’t back down on Māori advance if co-governance made key...
Whakaata Māori
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her Aotearoa New Zealand government will not back down on advancing Māori issues, even if National frames co-governance...
NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in...
RNZ News
Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon says there are more important issues facing Aotearoa New Zealand than the controversy over a party social...
Ex-Air NZ chief Christopher Luxon voted new National Party leader
Former business executive Christopher Luxon has been voted the new leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party after main rival Simon Bridges moved to...
NZ support for opposition leader Judith Collins dives in new poll
RNZ News
New Zealand's opposition National Party leader Judith Collins has suffered a sharp dip in support in the preferred prime minister stakes, in the...
He Puapua report proposals bogged down in ‘swamp of politics’
ANALYSIS: By Meriana Johnsen, RNZ News political reporter
It was supposed to chart a new way forward but He Puapua, a report on how the...
Rogue poll or not, all the signs point to a tectonic...
By Richard Shaw, of Massey University
Strong team. More jobs. Better economy. So say the National Party’s campaign hoardings. Only thing is, last Sunday’s Newshub-Reid...
‘Common goal – oust government’, says NZ’s new National leader Collins
By RNZ News
New Zealand's National Party has elected Judith Collins as its new leader to replace Todd Muller, with Gerry Brownlee as her deputy...
Muller’s ‘bolt from blue’ resignation leaves election hoardings standing
ANALYSIS: By Liam Hehir
The detailed reasons for opposition National Party leader Todd Muller's shock resignation are something we are not yet given to know....
National MP Jian Yang, who admitted training Chinese spies, quits politics
By RNZ News
Opposition National list MP Dr Jian Yang has announced his retirement from New Zealand politics and says he will not stand in...
Murray Horton: Hey, Jacinda, let’s do this – be truly independent
OPINION: By Murray Horton, of the Aotearoa Independence Movement
Jacinda Ardern, we have some suggestions for when you go as New Zealand's incoming Prime Minister...
Goodbye Maggie baggage – RIP neo-liberalism in NZ: 1984–2017
OPINION: By Frank Macskasy
Winston Peters has called it: NZ First is going into coalition with Labour-Greens.
In reality, it was the only decision he...
Keep your ‘green pledges’, NZ ecology groups warn key political leaders
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A "supergroup" of New Zealand environmental organisations has sent an open letter to the leaders of four key political parties, warning...
NZ’s election 2017 winners, losers and the biggest issues
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
In 2014, New Zealanders shrugged off dirty politics and mass surveillance lies and then voted National...
West Papua ignored by most NZ major political parties’ election policies
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
On the eve of New Zealand’s 2017 general election, Pacific Media Watch reports on whether West Papua features in the human...
Labour MP blames Māori Party for NZ ‘inequality’ as National’s partners
By Philip Cass in Auckland
Mangere Labour MP Aupito William Sio has hit out at claims by Tongan Māori Party candidate Manase Lua that Labour...